How to Synchronize Time with NTP Server in Ubuntu / Linux Mint / Xubuntu / Debian

In today’s computer world time synchronization is very crucial to determine when events happened to your system. You may want your system time should be accurate. The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is to keep your system clock updated. It contacts NTP servers around the globe depend upon the configuration or you may configure NTP manually by editing default configuration file in /etc/ntp.conf file and NTP will fetch local time accordingly. NTP uses UDP port 123.

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